{"id":4921,"date":"2004-03-22T09:31:37","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T08:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4921"},"modified":"2004-03-22T09:31:37","modified_gmt":"2004-03-22T08:31:37","slug":"vaughan-de-jour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/03\/22\/vaughan-de-jour\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaughan de Jour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereveryouare.org.uk\/weblog\/archives\/week_2004_03_21.html#003458\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"it's not Vaughan\">Vaughan on the mystery of Belle de Jour<\/a>.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be quite honest &#8211; I was quite fascinated by the Belle de Jour site. And, in a way, it has brought blogging even further into the mainstream, as the tabloids (and the broadsheets) get their fishnets in a twist over who may or may not be behind <a href=\"http:\/\/belledejour-uk.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"there, I've linked it. Sue me.\">BdJ<\/a>. I&#8217;m sure that it was the high quality of writing and insight into another mind that drew me to the site, and nothing to do with sexual depravity and voyeurism at all.<br \/>\nBut now, I find the whole thing a little tiresome. The content at BdJ has veered towards embroilment in the whole &quot;is she a she, or isn&#8217;t she, and who is she anyway?&quot; thing, and has become quite tiresome. Some <a href=\"http:\/\/stuarthughes.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"doesn't suit you, Stuart\">other blogs<\/a> have become fairly tiresome on the subject, but that tiresomeness is fairly widespread in the blogging community right now. It reminds me of the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/dear_raed.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Where is Raed? Who cares?\">Salam Pax<\/a> thingy, a good weblog that was spoiled by people busying themselves with trying to unmask the author, rendering the whole thing &#8230;well, tiresome.<br \/>\nThankfully, readers of this site have averted tiresomeness because your author has never made any secret of his identity, and I think that should be the model that all bloggers follow. It&#8217;s much more simple that way, and makes it easier for publishers to come running with their cheques for the book deal.<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaughan on the mystery of Belle de Jour. I&#8217;ll be quite honest &#8211; I was quite fascinated by the Belle de Jour site. And, in a way, it has brought blogging even further into the mainstream, as the tabloids (and the broadsheets) get their fishnets in a twist over who may or may not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blogosphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}